Microsoft to license Adobe's Flash Lite — Even though it has plans to release a competing technology, Microsoft has agreed to license Adobe's Flash Lite technology for its Windows Mobile operating system and browser. — The two companies are expected to announce Monday that Microsoft …

Web creator rejects net tracking — The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet. — Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system.

BT confesses lies over secret Phorm experiments — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm's advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious redirects.

Microsoft moves ‘threatens net’ — Any deal between Yahoo and Microsoft could be “bad for the internet” according to the head of Google. — Chief executive Eric Schmidt said that Google was “concerned” about a deal and said it could have implications for the “openness” of the internet.

BMC buys BladeLogic, eyes data center automation — BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share. — The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a service strategy.

10 Things I Warned Microsoft About Windows Vista — The imminent real release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is reason enough to broach the question. SP1 is an important milestone for an operating system that bloggers and other critics consistently ridicule.

Google News, YouTube blocked in China amid Tibet riots — Beijing appears to have taken a page out of Myanmar's playbook by blocking some Internet access amid rioting in Tibet that has already seen as many as 80 people killed, according to the Tibetan government in exile.

Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World — Since he helped create Wikipedia in 2001, Jimmy Wales has been called many things: benevolent dictator, constitutional monarch, digital evangelist and spiritual leader of the tens of thousands of volunteers who have made the online encyclopedia one of the top 10 most visited Web sites.

Finding Recession-Proof SEM Jobs — “The economy is now in a recession,” Harvard economist Martin Feldstein told The Boston Globe over the weekend. “It will last longer and be deeper than the last two recessions, which lasted only 8 months from peak to trough.

Rush Limbaugh Resorts to His Bully Pulpit to Get His Mac Fixed — Mac users who want to back up their e-mail archives may have Rush Limbaugh to thank. — One month after the conservative radio talk show host publicly appealed for computer help to the Apple chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, his e-mails are now saving properly.

Home phones never looked so good — Most people tend to fall asleep when they see terms like DECT and VoIP listed in the product description. Yet even though that was what we were faced with when looking at the Thompson Symbio's datasheet, its design alone kept us more than awake.